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The attention of leadership of the National Union of Ghana Students has been drawn to the dismissal of the 8 students from Chiana Senior High School for the use of derogatory and unprintable words on the person of the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo .
“We want to clearly and unequivocally state that the union condemns every aspect of the actions of these students and believes that such indiscipline acts need a serious look and attention.
Such behaviour is alien to our culture and more worrying when it is targeted at the elderly and in this situation the President of the republic. It is indeed disgraceful and unacceptable!
Whiles the union admits the need for punishment, and the benefits of same we are also of the humble conviction that the principle of punishment has a key pillar which is reformation.
It is common African cultural knowledge that the responsibility of raising a child is not the duty of one man, hence our collective obligation to help shape the young ones of our country in a way that though evokes discipline still protects their future.
“We believe that dismissal is overly heavy and leads to a huge step in truncating the educational future of these young ones. It is even more worrying knowing that due to the Free SHS policy, almost all Senior High Schools are now managed by the Ghana Education Service and such a dismissal is almost an end to their high school education
We hereby call on the Ghana Education Service Council, the Ministry of Education and the Presidency to help in the reconsideration of the decision to dismiss these students. Other forms of punishment which still provides deterrence but ensures reformation can be pursued.
Once again, I want to reiterate that we support disciplinary actions but not that which ultimately ends the dreams of young people
In ending, we humbly remind us all, “the mess of a child on a parent’s lap is washed but the thigh
is not cut away”.
By uniquenewsgh.com
